New York Harbor tour, part 3: the Upper Harbor, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, Governors Island
The third in a series of videos from an evening cruise around New York Harbor and up the Hudson River aboard a New York Water Taxi boat, sponsored by the Working Harbor Committee. We pass westward through Buttermilk Channel into Upper New York Harbor, and see the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn. We then turn north and north-east again, around Governors Island, a former US Coast Guard base. To our northwest, off the port side, across the river, we see the Jersey City waterfront financial district, with the Goldman Sachs Tower, the tallest building in the state of New Jersey. On the Manhattan side of the Hudson we see Battery Park, Battery Park City, and some of the office buildings of Lower Manhattan, including One World Trade Center (aka the Freedom Tower), under construction and nearing completion.
On-board commentary in this segment was provided by maritime historian, author, and lecturer Bill Miller. He tells us about a famous passenger who was seen off by a legion of fans when he sailed for Germany--Private Elvis Presley, who shipped overseas from the Brooklyn Army Terminal aboard a military transport on September 22, 1958. Mr. Miller also talks about the famous shipping lines (including Cunard, Furness, and United States Lines) that had grand offices in Lower Manhattan during the heyday of the ocean liner.
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Newburgh NY city got damnation part 1
This video shows the decay that has happened to the city of Newburgh New York. A once great city is falling apart because of corruption, misappropriation of taxes and apathy. Once considered one of the best places to live in the USA, now it's a city sinking into the abyss that is urban blight. At the end of this video there is a scene where a families possessions are outside a home after an eviction or foreclosure. One in five homes here are vacant.
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Abandoned Baby Girl Found Alive in Plastic Bag: Cops
A baby girl was found alive in a plastic bag and now authorities in Georgia are trying to find out who abandoned her. Bodycam from a Forsyth County Sheriff's Deputy shows the harrowing discovery. The child still had her umbilical cord attached. She was wrapped up in a shirt until paramedics got there. She was taken to a local hospital and authorities are calling her Baby India. InsideEdition.com's Mara Montalbano has more.
Newburgh Activists Present Opinions to City Council for Vacant Lot Use
August 7, 2011 -- 6:30pm -- Mid-City Lot, Newburgh, NY
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Neighborhood activists in downtown Newburgh presented the city council with a community survey compiled from hundreds of local opinions polled about the Mid-City Lot. This vacant Broadway parcel between Lander and Johnston Streets was formerly considered as a site for the proposed Orange County Community College annex.
Five years ago, developer Robert Carchietta acquired ownership of the land with the help of Newburgh's IDA, which co-signed the mortgage. However, in 2009, Newburgh foreclosed on the property after Carchietta failed to make mortgage and tax payments. Now the city is seeking proposals from developers.
Community Voices Heard, an regional advocacy group for low-income families, with a branch office on Lander Street, wishes residents be included in the discussions. They gathered outside the lot on Monday beneath threatening storm clouds, demanding that impoverished people of Newburgh have their say in Mid-City Lot's ultimate fate. Later members attended the city council meeting and presented their concerns to elected officials.
Loretta Manning, one of the activists, complained the proposed college annex fell though. That was actually trying to create something for our community, she said. We're left with nothing, with leftovers. It's an eyesore, it's a nuisance, it's aggravating. Demanding inclusion in new proposals, she added, Residents are not going to just stand by anymore. Let's face it, it doesn't belong to City Hall, it belongs to the residents who live here in Newburgh, and that have to live around it, walk past it.
Andrei Niles, who presented the community survey, remarked on data collected. The general consensus is that they would like to have job opportunities, he said. Also, people wanted to have a supermarket in the area at least, or to have affordable housing. Niles believes both are possible on the vacant land.
There was a secret committee that formed to finance the six proposals, Niles added. The people that sit on the committee, they don't live in Newburgh, they're from the outside, they don't understand what Newburgh needs in this unique financial situation that we're in.
Marguarita Knox agreed. We just want something here that's going to benefit the community regarding housing, jobs and education training, as well as bringing revenue back into this community.
City mayor Nicholas Valentine commented that the criticism comes too early. We're gonna have input from everybody on the Mid-City Block, he said. We're not doing anything yet, they're way ahead of the game. We've only talked to a couple of developers last Thursday, there's no decision tonight. It's gonna take a couple of months to even get to a decision. I can only say that it's very very premature. To say that we're not having community input, when we haven't even offered to have community input, is a little over the top. Tonight there will be no action.
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The Great Gildersleeve: Halloween Party / Hayride / A Coat for Marjorie
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor.
In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve) and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity.
Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog).
The key to the show was Peary, whose booming voice and facility with moans, groans, laughs, shudders and inflection was as close to body language and facial suggestion as a voice could get. Peary was so effective, and Gildersleeve became so familiar a character, that he was referenced and satirized periodically in other comedies and in a few cartoons.